Come on down and thank your volunteers

With National Volunteer Week running from 18-24 June, what
better way to thank your volunteers than entering them for a
Trustpower Community Award?

Trustpower and the Tararua
District Council will be hosting a stall in both Dannevirke
and Pahiatua on Thursday 22 June as an easy way to enter a
voluntary group.

The stall will run from 11:00am –
12:30pm in Dannevirke outside the Warehouse and 2:00pm –
3:30pm in Pahiatua outside New World. They will also be
giving out a free sausage sizzle to anyone who comes along
and enters a group.

National Volunteer Week puts a huge
spotlight on the special people who keep New Zealand’s
communities humming – volunteers. This year’s theme is
“Live, Laugh, Share, Volunteer”.

The Trustpower
Tararua District Community Awards is one way of recognising
these volunteers. The Awards acknowledge voluntary and
community groups across five categories: Heritage and
Environment; Health and Wellbeing; Arts and Culture; Sports
and Leisure; and Education and Child/Youth Development. This
year there is more than $5,000 up for grabs.

Trustpower
Community Relations Representative Teresa Partridge says
coming down to the stall is a great way to enter a group
into the Awards, while it is fresh in your mind and you can
get first-hand information about the Awards. Plus, you get a
free sausage!

“We would love to see you down at the
stall. It will only take a couple of minutes to fill out an
entry form, and you are recognising the amazing work that is
happening behind the scenes in your community.

Volunteers
are the ones working hard in the background to create the
amazing community culture that Tararua has. A lot of work in
the community couldn’t happen without volunteers. Some
even save our lives when we call on them – and this is
often on top of work and family commitments too,” says Mrs
Partridge.

Now it’s the community’s chance to get
behind their local volunteers by entering them for the
Trustpower Tararua District Community Awards.

Entries for
the 2017 Trustpower Tararua District Community Awards close
on Friday 21 July
2017.

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